Formal Quotes

Formal Quote of the day

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.